Shoe-rest for display-fram es



(No Model.)

J. HOPMAN.

SHOE BEST FOR DISPLAY FRAMES.

No. 424,555. Patented Apr. 1, 1890.

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JOHN HOFMAN, OF ROUIIESTER, NE\V YORK.

.SHOE-REST FOR DISPLAY-FRAMES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 424,555, dated April 1, 1890.

Application filed May 10, 1889. $e1'ial Ilov 310,323. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: The operation of this form of shoe-rest is Be it known that 1, JOHN IIOFMAN, of the as follows: The shank of the sole of a shoe is city of Rochester, in the county of Monroe placed between the flanges a: of the arms D and State of New York, have invented ccr- D. Upon turning the set-screw f the lug eis 5 tain new and useful Improvements in Shoeforced away from the metal frame-piece B, Rests for Display-Frames, of which the fol and the arm revolves about the pivot c; The lowing a specification, reference being 'had free end of the arm D is thereby moved toward to the accompanying drawings, in whichthe free end of the arm D, and one side of Figure 1 is a side view of one form of my the cavity in'the other end of the arm D [o shoe-rest. Fig. 2 a side view of another presses against the projection d of the arm form thereof. Fig. is an edge view of the D, and the free end of this end of this arm last. Fig. at is an edge view of another form moving about the pivot 0 moves toward the of my shoe-rest. Fig. 5 is a side view of the free end of the arm D. This produces a last. clamping of the shank of the shoe between I 5 The object of my invention is to provide the free ends of the two arms. Unscrewing adjustable shoe-rests to be set on the horithe set-screw produces theopposite motion of 'zontal bars of display-frames or upon stand the jaws D D and releases the shoe.

ards, and which shall be capable of grasping In the form of shoe-rest shown in Fig. 2 the shoes of different sizes by positive mechanframe-piece B, through which runs the swivel- 2o ism, and which is also capable of being turned ing screw 0, has a projection E from one side, about a vertical axis. upon which projection are placed the two In the drawings, A represents a sliding 001- pairs of lugs b b. The levers or arms D D lar or other suitable device, which may be are pivoted to the frame-piece B by the screws placed upon one of the horizontal bars of any or rivets o in the same manner as those in 2 5 ordinary display-frame, and which can be the form of device just described. Perpenfirmly fixed thereto, as by the set-screw Ct. dicularly through the projection E runs a B represents a frame-piece of metal, having screw g, the lower end of which has a milled upon it pairs of lugs l) I), through which are head or thumb-piece, and the other end of So fastened the pivots c c of the arms D D. which has a plate or double cone h fastened o 0 represents a screw (shown in dotted lines upon it. The edge of this plate or double in the figures) fastening the metal frame cone fits into slots cut in the short end of piece bearing the pairs of lugs to the sliding each of the lovers or arms D D. Turning the collar. This screw is so fastened into the screw 9 in the suitable direction will move collar that the metal piece B may turn freely the plate or double cone h, which will there- 5 around the screw as an axis. upon act upon the arms D D, opening or clos- D 1) represent two arms pivoted between ing their free ends a: 03, thus clamping or rethe pairs of lugs Z) b by the screws or rivets leasing the shank of a shoe which may be c, and having flanged ends a: or, adapted to placed between them. grasp the edges of the shank. of a shoe. These In Figs. 4. and 5 the metal frame-piece B 40 constitute the essential features of myinvenhas a cavity cut through it in a direction at tion, and in the drawings I show simply deright angles to its axis. The swiveling screw tails for the purpose of clamping and setting 0 is fastenedthrough a hole in the bottom of the arms or jaws D D. this cavity into the collar A, and the screw g,

In the form of shoe-rest shown in Fig. l passing through a hole tapped in the upper 45 the short lever of the arm D has an extremity part of the frame-piece B, has upon its end a (1, which extends and meshes into the cavity plate or double cone h, which fits into slots (1 in the end of the arm D. Upon one of in the short ends of the lovers or arms D D the arms D or D isa lug e, forming sub in manner similar to the form of shoe-rest last too stantially an extended radius of the curve of described. .Turning this screw will raise or 50 the arm, through which is tapped a hole, in lower the plate or double cone 7t, will cause which hole the set-screw f moves and presses the arms D D to move about their pivots c 0, against the frame-piece l5.

and will cause their free ends 0000 to approach or separate, clamping or releasing the shank of the shoe which may be placed between them. The free ends 00 a; of these arms D D are made broad, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, in order to give a wide bearing-surface upon the edges of the shank of the shoe, and these jaws may be so formed that the upper edges so a: may either be at right angles to the plane of the arms D D, or, if so desired, may be at other angles with said plane. The jaws D D may be made adjustable to the shoe by a spring which pulls them together, as shown in Fig. 1 by dotted lines, orbya suitable screw.

A shoe placed in my shoe-rest may be firmly fixed therein by the action of the screw f or g, does not tend to slip, is easy to adjust to shoes of any size, and when placed upon a display-frame a shoe may be turned about in any position by reason of the frame-piece B being capable of revolution about the screw 0, and the whole device being capable of revolution about a bearing of the displayframe by means of the adjustable collar A or other suitable means. I may, however, make my shoe-rest integral with the means of attaching the same to the display-frame or standard.

What I claim is- 1. In a shoe-rest for display-frames, a pair of jaws adapted to fit the edges of the shank of a shoe, each pivotally attached to a framepiece and adapted to grasp a shoe-shank by a device jointly actuating said pair of jaws, in combination with means for adjustably affixing said frame-piece to the bars of an adjustable frame or standard, for the purpose described.

2. In a shoe-rest for display-frames, a pair of jaws adapted to fit the edges of the shank of a shoe, each pivotally attached to a framepiece and adapted to grasp the shoe-shank by means of a suitable adjusting device, together with means for affixing said frame-piece to a display-frame or standard, for the purpose described.

3. In a shoe-rest for display-frames, a pair of jaws adapted to fit the edges of the shank of a shoe, each pivotally attached to a framepiece and adapted to grasp the shoe-shank by means of a suitable adjusting device, said frame-piece being rotatably attached to means for affixing the same to the bars of a displayframe or standard, for the purposes described.

4. In a shoe-rest for display-frames, a pair of jaws adapted to fit the edges of a shank of a shoe, said jaws being pivotally attached opposite to each other to a frame-piece, in combination with an actuating-screw g, having thereon a plate or double cone h, fitting into slots in the ends of said jaws, in combination with meansforattaching said framepiece to a display-frame or standard, for the purposes described.

5. In a shoe-rest for standards and displayframes, and rigidly or adjustably attached to the same by suitable means, a pair of curved levers or arms D D, having on one end of each a flange 00 m, shaped to fit the edges of a shank of a shoe, said arms being pivoted to a frame-piece B near the other end, in combination with an actuating-screw g, set in the axis of said frame-piece, and provided at its extremity with a plate or double cone h at right angles to the axis of the screw and engaging a slot in the short end of each of said levers or arms, for the purpose described.

6. In a shoe-rest for standards and displayframes, the combination of the arms D D, having the flange a: or, and pivoted to the frame-piece B, with the screw 9 set in a vertical screw-bearing in said frame-piece B, having on its extremity a plate 72, engaging the slots in the short ends of said arms D D, and means for attaching said frame-piece B to a bar of a display-frame or standard, for the purposes described.

. JOHN I-IOFMAN. WVitnesses:

O. D. KIEHEL, H. L. OSGOOD. 

